More about Soccer Day in Canada

CBC is doing one of those “Hockey Day in Canada” things for soccer on May 31 – this Saturday.

They’re likely going to show a bunch of players from Lethbridge or something, then cut to the TFC game against the LA Galaxy.

While I applaud the CBC for covering soccer — for example, they showed last night’s TFC vs Impact game at midnight — they’re still only getting it half right.

Why aren’t we showing the CAnada vs. Brazil match on the CBC?

It’s the Canadian National Team. We’ve got a great team. They’re exciting. They play attacking soccer. And they’re playing BRAZIL.

I mean, what does the National team need to do to get exposure? To get shown on soccer day in Canada.

Instead, they’ve probably banked on Beckham playing against the TFC. But you know what? Beckham won’t even be in the Galaxy lineup because he’s away playing a bunch of Friendlies for England. England, a team that isn’t even in the European Cup.

He wants to play for his country over his club. As does many of the Canadian players.

I’m not sure where they’re showing the Canada Brazil game, but i want to see it. There’s no mention of if they’re playing it on the score, sportset, TSN, or wherever. I suppose what i’ll end up doing is head up to College street somewhere and watch it from a Brazilian feed.

Soccer day in Canada indeed.

Go Pens!

The Pittsburgh Penguins are in the Stanley Cup final.

I admit, I’m on the bandwagon – but I got on the bandwagon early this year. I went to see them play a game at Melon where they beat the NJ Devils 7-1. Since then, I’ve been a Pens fan.

I’m saying that Geno, Sid, and the boys are going to beat Detroit in 6.

May 31st: Soccer day in Canada. Well sorta in Canada

Okay. May 31, 2008 was going to be the day that David Beckham finally played in Toronto, against the FC.

For the record, he’s already played in Canada this year — his LA Galaxy losing to the Vancouver Whitecaps in Edmonton. That’s a USL soccer club beating Donovan and Beckham — something to think about before Toronto FC goes ahead and books those CONCACAF champion’s league tickets.

Speaking of CONCACAF – May 31 is now another big day for soccer in Canada. Or perhaps it’s a big day for soccer in Seattle as that’s where the Canadian Men’s National Team will be playing Brazil.

It’s going to be great to see how Julian DeGuzman, Dwayne DeRosario, and Atiba Hutchinson play against Brazil. Canada has a fantastic midfield right now — i’m really looking forward to how they perform against a big squad like Brazil. Okay, i’ve mentioned Brazil enough. Back to Beckham.

Word is he may not be playing in Toronto. Okay fine, this on again, off again thing he has with the English national team and his injuries is getting to be just drama. He never was going to make the Galaxy an amazing team all on his own. Is it because the Galaxy are so terrible on the field even with Beckham in the lineup that the focus of the season is not, how is Beckham and the Galaxy going to hurt us on the field, but rather if the guy will ever show up to play.

We assume he’s going to come back for the MLS All-Star game — but can we really count on that? After all, shouldn’t you at least play a couple of games in a league before being added to the All-Star team?